Bibliograph

The Chinese Empire, Ellis Roxburgh

Type

Label

The Chinese Empire, Ellis Roxburgh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Chinese Empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Ellis Roxburgh

Series statement

Great empires

Summary

The Shang disappeared from history for millennia before chance discoveries in the early 20th century revealed a glimpse of China's first great dynasty. More than 3,500 years ago, the Shang created a state on the Yellow River from where they came to dominate an extensive empire. As this book reveals, over the last 100 years, historians have built a detailed picture of a highly sophisticated civilisation, which laid the foundations for much of modern Chinese life. Each book in the Great Empires series covers a particular empire or regional series of empires, charting its history from its rise to its eventual fall. Concise text and supporting boxes explore the reasons for the empire's success-and its failure-and explain the mechanics of governing the empire and the experience of living under it

Table Of Contents

The roots of the empire -- Building the empire -- The height of the empire -- The peoples of the empire -- Life in the empire -- Fall of the empire -- Timeline

Target audience

juvenile

Classification